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China’s first female astronaut, Liu Yang, gave a powerful interview after the National People’s Congress on the prospects for China’s space program. Here she is shown (right) with EIR’s William Jones and Marsha Freeman at the Naples International Astronautical Congress in 2012.

In Baghdad, (from left to right) the President of the Islamic Development Bank, Ahmed Mohamed Ali Al-Madani, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, Haider Al-Abadi, arrive at a press conference. 26 March, 2016.

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has announced that he will create new DA posts and associated Defence Sections in Finland, Senegal (also covering the Sahel region) and Albania, as well as new Deputy DA roles in Qatar, Afghanistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia.

Female Peshmerga troops receive training from British Army personnel in Northern Iraq

Palestinian-Syrian hairdresser Momena attends to a client at her small salon in Damascus.

Yemeni refugee Abdillahi Bashraheel stands at the entrance to his "museum of curiosities" at Markazi Camp in Djibouti.

A young child inside her house in the Muhamasheen area of Mathbah, in Sana'a, Yemen. 2 November 2015.

Girls fetching water in Mawyah district, Taiz. This role often falls on the shoulders of girls and young women, often at the expense of their education.